Sean Thornton has a great post this morning on the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School Data-Smart City Solutions Blog: The Chicago School of Data: Building a Framework for Chicago’s Data Ecosystem. Here’s a snip: There’s the Chicago school of architecture,…
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Columbia Journalism Review: Moving from “Projects” to Products
Today Smart Chicago was featured in this story in the Columbia Journalism Review: “How civic hackers are helping local journalism“. Here’s a snip: “We are trying to create and encourage an alignment among all of the amazing players in this…
Mind the Gap (At the Chicago School of Data Days Conference)
This post is the first in a series that take a deep dive into some of our sessions. These sessions are an opportunity to discuss some of the greatest challenges organizations face in using data. Sessions will focus on what…
Resources and Reading Toward a Digital City
One of our programs is Connect Chicago, a loose network of more than 250 places where you can use a computer for free. It is a central part of our work around both access to the Internet and digital skills. I…
Twitter Bot Helps Chicago Officials Find Dirty Restaurants (Popular Science)
Twitter Bot Helps Chicago Officials Find Dirty Restaurants. Snip: The Chicago Department of Public Health’s Twitter bot, plus a new online complaint form, helped the department identify 133 restaurants for inspections over a 10-month period. Twenty-one of those restaurants failed…
Tweets Identify Food Poisoning Outbreaks – Scientific American
In Chicago monitoring Twitter for reports of food poisoning led to 133 restaurant inspections for health violations, with 21 establishments shut down. Dina Fine Maron reports. During a 10-month stretch last year, staff members at the health agency responded to…
